With Jewell cleared, FBI turns elsewhere

ATLANTA (CNN) -- Former security guard Richard Jewell is
expected to describe his experience as a high-profile suspect
in the Olympic Park bombing when he holds a nationally
televised news conference at noon Monday.

Jewell has been cleared of suspicion in the bombing that
killed one person and injured more than 100 on July 27.

In a New York Times interview published Monday, Jewell said.
"There will be a non-healing scar .. always affixed to
my name" in the wake of the media frenzy that came after his
name was leaked as a suspect in the bombing.

Lin Wood, one of Jewell's attorneys, told CNN Monday morning
that he would be filing civil lawsuits against media
outlets, and that Jewell faced a tough road reclaiming his
reputation.

Meanwhile, investigators are scrambling to find witnesses and
chase leads that may have gone cold while they focused on
Jewell as a suspect.

Their latest strategy: to focus on motive, looking at suspects who may have been angry with Olympic officials or with the band performing in the park at the time of the explosion.

Others under consideration: disgruntled security guards or Olympic vendors who lost money during the Games, sources close to the case have told CNN.

Potential leads include "people that were shut out, or lost money in the other part of town because the crowds were over here," said former FBI agent Bill Hinshaw.

Now that the 33-year-old former security guard for the park is out of the picture, sources said the investigation is stalled and no arrests are imminent.

Jewell was thrust into the spotlight when he was hailed as a hero on
nationwide television for spotting the knapsack which contained the bomb
in Centennial Olympic Park.

The explosion came at the height of the Atlanta Olympics, which
organizers had billed as the safest Games in history.

But three days later an article in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
named the private security guard as a suspect, saying he matched an
FBI profile that described the bomber as a former policeman who longed for heroism.

Images of Jewell, sporting a baseball cap, flashed across television screens nationwide during the remainder of the Olympics.

For weeks, he was hounded by television cameras and tailed by a motorcade of federal agents, forcing him into seclusion in his mother's apartment. Jewell even set up a telephone hotline to solicit public donations to help make ends meet.

Meanwhile, his attorneys plan to file lawsuits against several news
organizations -- including NBC, news anchor Tom Brokaw and The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- for allegedly defaming Jewell's character
at the outset of the bombing investigation. They also are still examining
the possibility of suing the federal government.

The first of the lawsuits is expected to be filed by December 1.
But Jewell's story is unlikely to end in the courtroom.

"There are a number of people who've contacted us to try to get us to
consider book and movie deals," said Wayne Grant, one of Jewell's four attorneys.

"We have not given serious consideration to any agreement.
But the ordeal Richard has been through certainly is something
that could be presented in a very appealing manner, from the standpoint
of literature."

The letter clearing Jewell of suspicion was hand-delivered
to his lawyer on Saturday by U.S. Attorney Kent Alexander.

The letter, and a separate public statement by Alexander
regretting the publicity caused by the investigation, were
seen as an apology. "It's close enough for government work,"
quipped defense attorney Jack Martin.